Notice of Availability of Final Policy Guidance for the Capital Investment Grants Program, 102248 [2024-29616]
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available in the docket for this notice
and on FHWA’s, FTA’s and FRA’s
websites. The Agencies will consider
any substantive comments received on
the Interim Final Guidance and will
either revise this interim guidance based
on comments received or will finalize
this interim guidance.
Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139; Pub. L. 112–
141, 126 Stat. 405; Pub. L. 114–94, 129
Stat. 1312; Pub. L. 117–58, 135 Stat.
429; Pub. L. 118–5, 137 Stat. 10; 23 CFR
part 771; 40 CFR parts 1500–1508.
Kristin White,
Acting Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration.
Amitabha Bose,
Administrator, Federal Railroad
Administration.
Veronica Vanterpool,
Deputy Administrator, Federal Transit
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
[FTA–2021–0010]
Notice of Availability of Final Policy
Guidance for the Capital Investment
Grants Program
Federal Transit Administration
(FTA), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Notice of availability of final
policy guidance for the Capital
Investment Grants program.
AGENCY:
The Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) is making
available the agency’s final policy
guidance for the Capital Investment
Grants (CIG) program. This version
amends FTA’s Initial CIG Policy
Guidance published in January 2023,
and incorporates feedback FTA received
from the public comment on its
proposed Policy Guidance published in
the Federal Register in April 2024. The
final guidance has been placed in the
docket and posted on the FTA website.
The policy guidance complements
FTA’s regulations that govern the CIG
program.
DATES: This final policy guidance is
effective January 16, 2025. Companion
documents to the CIG Policy Guidance
such as reporting instructions, CIG
reporting templates, and standard cost
category worksheets will be updated on
the FTA website prior to the effective
date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Day, FTA Office of Planning
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and Environment, telephone (202) 366–
5159 or Elizabeth.Day@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final
policy guidance document contains
binding obligations, which 49 U.S.C.
5334(k) defines as ‘‘a substantive policy
statement, rule, or guidance document
issued by the Federal Transit
Administration that grants rights,
imposes obligations, produces
significant effects on private interests, or
effects a significant change in existing
policy.’’ Under 49 U.S.C. 5334(k), FTA
may issue binding obligations if it
follows notice and comment rulemaking
procedures under 5 U.S.C. 553. Prior to
making the amendments announced
today, FTA followed such procedures.
The policy guidance that FTA
periodically issues for the CIG program
complements the FTA regulations that
govern the CIG program, codified at 49
CFR part 611. The regulations set forth
the process that grant applicants must
follow to be considered for discretionary
funding under the CIG program, and the
procedures and criteria FTA uses to rate
and evaluate projects to determine their
eligibility for discretionary CIG program
funding. The policy guidance provides
a greater level of detail about the
methods FTA uses and the sequential
steps a sponsor must follow in
developing a project.
Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(g)(5), FTA
is required to publish policy guidance
on the CIG program each time the
agency makes significant changes to the
review and evaluation process and
criteria, but not less frequently than
once every two years. In April 2024,
FTA published a notice in the Federal
Register (89 FR 24086), seeking
comment on proposed changes to FTA’s
Initial CIG Policy Guidance issued in
January 2023 (88 FR 2166), which were
informed by feedback FTA received in
response to its Request for Information
published in the Federal Register in
July 2021 (86 FR 37402). The amended
Final CIG program policy guidance is
being made available today on the
agency’s public website at https://
www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grantprograms/capital-investments/capitalinvestment-grants-program-regulationsguidance, and in the docket at https://
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTA-20210010/. Additionally, FTA’s response to
the comments received on the proposed
changes are available in the docket.
FTA is exempting certain projects
from following the new amended Final
CIG Policy Guidance. Specifically,
projects already in the Project
Development or Engineering phases of
the CIG program as of the date of
publication of this notice that have been
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evaluated and rated at least once by
FTA under the January 2023 CIG Policy
Guidance and that meet the
requirements for receipt of a CIG
construction grant award by the end of
calendar year 2025 are exempt from
following the new amended Final CIG
Policy Guidance. These projects may
continue to follow the January 2023
Initial CIG Policy Guidance. To
demonstrate a project has met the
requirements for receipt of a
construction grant award by the end of
calendar year 2025, the project sponsor
must submit a complete construction
grant application to FTA no later than
September 1, 2025. If a project sponsor
desires to have an exempt project
evaluated and rated under the new
amended Final CIG Policy Guidance
rather than the prior January 2023 Initial
CIG Policy Guidance, the sponsor may
notify FTA of this desire.
Veronica Vanterpool,
Deputy Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
[FTA-2021-0010]
Notice of Availability of Final Policy Guidance for the Capital
Investment Grants Program
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of availability of final policy guidance for the Capital
Investment Grants program.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is making available
the agency's final policy guidance for the Capital Investment Grants
(CIG) program. This version amends FTA's Initial CIG Policy Guidance
published in January 2023, and incorporates feedback FTA received from
the public comment on its proposed Policy Guidance published in the
Federal Register in April 2024. The final guidance has been placed in
the docket and posted on the FTA website. The policy guidance
complements FTA's regulations that govern the CIG program.
DATES: This final policy guidance is effective January 16, 2025.
Companion documents to the CIG Policy Guidance such as reporting
instructions, CIG reporting templates, and standard cost category
worksheets will be updated on the FTA website prior to the effective
date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Day, FTA Office of Planning
and Environment, telephone (202) 366-5159 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final policy guidance document contains
binding obligations, which 49 U.S.C. 5334(k) defines as ``a substantive
policy statement, rule, or guidance document issued by the Federal
Transit Administration that grants rights, imposes obligations,
produces significant effects on private interests, or effects a
significant change in existing policy.'' Under 49 U.S.C. 5334(k), FTA
may issue binding obligations if it follows notice and comment
rulemaking procedures under 5 U.S.C. 553. Prior to making the
amendments announced today, FTA followed such procedures. The policy
guidance that FTA periodically issues for the CIG program complements
the FTA regulations that govern the CIG program, codified at 49 CFR
part 611. The regulations set forth the process that grant applicants
must follow to be considered for discretionary funding under the CIG
program, and the procedures and criteria FTA uses to rate and evaluate
projects to determine their eligibility for discretionary CIG program
funding. The policy guidance provides a greater level of detail about
the methods FTA uses and the sequential steps a sponsor must follow in
developing a project.
Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(g)(5), FTA is required to publish policy
guidance on the CIG program each time the agency makes significant
changes to the review and evaluation process and criteria, but not less
frequently than once every two years. In April 2024, FTA published a
notice in the Federal Register (89 FR 24086), seeking comment on
proposed changes to FTA's Initial CIG Policy Guidance issued in January
2023 (88 FR 2166), which were informed by feedback FTA received in
response to its Request for Information published in the Federal
Register in July 2021 (86 FR 37402). The amended Final CIG program
policy guidance is being made available today on the agency's public
website at https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grant-programs/capital-investments/capital-investment-grants-program-regulations-guidance, and
in the docket at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTA-2021-0010/.
Additionally, FTA's response to the comments received on the proposed
changes are available in the docket.
FTA is exempting certain projects from following the new amended
Final CIG Policy Guidance. Specifically, projects already in the
Project Development or Engineering phases of the CIG program as of the
date of publication of this notice that have been evaluated and rated
at least once by FTA under the January 2023 CIG Policy Guidance and
that meet the requirements for receipt of a CIG construction grant
award by the end of calendar year 2025 are exempt from following the
new amended Final CIG Policy Guidance. These projects may continue to
follow the January 2023 Initial CIG Policy Guidance. To demonstrate a
project has met the requirements for receipt of a construction grant
award by the end of calendar year 2025, the project sponsor must submit
a complete construction grant application to FTA no later than
September 1, 2025. If a project sponsor desires to have an exempt
project evaluated and rated under the new amended Final CIG Policy
Guidance rather than the prior January 2023 Initial CIG Policy
Guidance, the sponsor may notify FTA of this desire.
Veronica Vanterpool,
Deputy Administrator.
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